Joseph koon



l(No Model.)

J. KOON.

CORSET.

No. 403,760. Patented May 21 1889..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH KOON, OF N EV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO LEWIS SCHIELE & COMPANY, OF NEV YORK, Y.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,760, dated May 21, 1889.

Application led March 25 1889.

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KOON, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear and exact description of the same,

1o and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in*

Figure l, a rear view of the corset with the covering-flap applied; Fig. 2, a rear view, a portion of the flap removed to illustrate its operation; Fig. 3,' a transverse section through the rear portion of the corset and the covering-flap.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets which are secured at zo the central back by means of lacings.

In order to properly apply the eyelets for lacin gs, heavy stays are necessary to be intro` duced into the make up ot the corset to give the requisite strength and support at the back. The lacings necessarily lie upon the outside and are exposed. In many cases these lacings and heavy ribs unavoidably show through the waist of the dress.

The object of my invention is to provide a protection over the lacings and heavy stays upon the outside which will prevent the lacings or stays showing upon the outside of the dress; and the invention consists in a flap of a width sutlicient to cover the lacings and eyelet-stays, so as to overlap both sides, and attached by its edges to the respective. sides of the corset by an elastic connection which will permit the requisite separation of the two edges of the corset to adapt it to varying forms and yet retain the covering` in its oentral position.

A represents the rear section of one side of a corset, and B the other section.

C C represent the eyelet-stays, arranged at the rear edge of the respective sides in the usual manner, and between which the eyelets are introduced, and through which eyelets the lacings are run, as seen in Fig. 2.

D represents a iap, which is made from fabric like the corset, and of a width so as to cover the eyelet-stays and lacings under ordinary circumstances. This tiap is best made from two thicknesses of material stitched to Serial No. 304,643. (No model.)

form pockets, in which light stays E are arranged, as seen in Fig. 3. This lap is connected to one side of the corset by elastic connections F, preferably made permanent, but so as to give the requisite amount of eXtension between the side of the corset and the flap, and the other side of the Hap is secured by elastic connections G, here represented as loops for button-holes and attached to corresponding buttons on that side of the corset. These elastic connections permitthe adjustment of the corset at the back-that is, greater or less separation of the two'sides-as indicated by broken lines, Fig. 2, the elastic connections yielding as the two sides are separated and contracting as they are brought nearer together, and so as to maintain a cen- 7o tral position always over the lacings. The

flap lies smooth upon the corset and lits the back of the wearer, and avoids all appearance of the lacings, eyelets, or eyelet-stays through the dress of the wearer. The iap being detachable from one side permits it to be turned away for the exposure of the lacings, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3. The elastic connections upon either side must be each narrow in itself, and so as to leave an open space between the liap and the corset for the convenience of lacing-that is to say, the elastic connections between the iap and the respective sides of the corset are distant from each other, so as to leave spaces between such connections.

I am aware that corsets have been constructed with a flap overlying laced openings in the corset, one edge ot the flap permanently and unyieldingly secured by one edge to one part of the corset and detachably connectedto the other part. I therefore do not claim, broadly,a flap arranged to overlie a laced opening of a corset.

I claiml In a corset divided at the back, each edge provided with the usual stays, eyelets, and lacin gs, the combination therewith of a vertical flap, D, over said lacings and connected at each edge to the respective sides of the corset by elastic connections, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOSEPH KOON.

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Vitnesses:

IsAA'o AsHER, IsAAc A. ULLMAN. 

